Filed under: art | Tags: art, coat hangers, design, food, installation, tea, teapot, to22, toast, toaster
This beautiful installation was made by a design collaborative known as to22. Their work cosists of ideas. This wire coat hanger installation was designed to make “something from nothing.”
Please also view this beautiful toaster. and this cool but stupid toaster. and this very, very stupid toaster.
Please view my favorite recipes and food related stories on TasteSpotting! The link to my favorites has been added to my “Virtually Frequented Sites” section to the left. It is easy to register and save your favorites. It is also easy to spend hours on this site.
Filed under: art, college, garden | Tags: art, philosophy, heliotrope, flower, herb, bloodstone, quartz, christians, jesus, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, Reading the OED, Apollo, Clytie, sun, Jasper, middle-ages, prayer, sunstroke, invisibility, astronomy, Thales, Pherecydes, solar eclipse, Battle of Halys
My photography class was asked this past term to do research. Originally the class was limited to researching an artist of their choosing, however this boundary was lifted and it was decided that we could research anything related to our practice. Some of us researched artists whose work we admired, while others researched techniques and materials.
I was interested in how “nature” could be represented in visual art. I spent a lot of time with the Oxford English Dictionary (last month I read Reading the OED) while doing research for this project. I spent many hours looking at the word heliotrope and how a plant which “turns its flowers and leaves towards the sun” has inspired so many. (more…)
Filed under: art, last green valley | Tags: architecture, art, energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, MoMA, New Orleans, New York, New York Times, pellet, Pomfret, prefab
MoMA is opening a new exhibit soon that will feature prefabricated housing.
Mr. Sass, an architecture professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has designed prefab housing for New Orleans. He proposes shipping a laser-cutting system with the pieces, which can be assembled with a rubber mallet, so homeowners can erect their own houses. “The house could be a fascinating combination of high-tech design and low-tech assembly,” Mr. Bergdoll said.
Unrelated…my father purchased a pellet stove for our house this weekend. It will be delivered and installed in October. Pellets are compacted sawdust; a bi-product of the sawmill industry. We’re hoping that the financial and ecological costs remain in our favor, despite the decline of the housing boom and the number of people converting to alternative fuels. We still aren’t sure about how to properly circulate air around the house. More on our pellet stove once it has been installed.
Filed under: art, last green valley | Tags: art, christoph niemann, connecticut historical society, New York, New York Times, Pomfret
A chaperone on one of Arthur’s school trips told me something he overheard when all the kids were neatly lined up in rows of two. The girl holding Arthur’s hand asked him, “Have you heard of Peter Pan?” “No,” he replied, “have you heard of Metro North?”
Here is a little bit of subway humor from the opinion section of the New York Times. It is a series of illustrations and captions by Christoph Niemann.
Looking through posts that have a Pomfret Tag often result in no gain of interesting information or happenings. I did find an interesting post in a blog by the Connecticut Historical Society Library that was posted in January. Despite a few date and grammar related mistakes, it is a good read.
Filed under: art, garden, last green valley | Tags: art, garden, New York, politics, Pomfret
One, two articles from the New York Times that I enjoyed. The first is about the revival of home vegetable gardens. The second came a little late, but now I have new pea knowledge.
I started my summer maintenance job at Pomfret School on Monday. Most of what I do is move tables and chairs from the lawn of one mansion to the lawn of another. I also bunk beds. No doubt we’ll all be jacked and crispy by the end of the summer; those bunks are heavy and we spend a lot of time outside. I really like the job, even if it’s tiring.
My dislike for the paintings of Tom Menard brings to mind my dislike for the paintings of Grandma Moses brings to mind my fondness for the art of Lisa Sanditz.
